Not to belittle our male counterparts, but we women do a lot, from making sure the house is clean to contributing to our household's income to knowing where virtually everything is, a prime example being a needle and thread kit I was asked about while I was writing this article.

The role of a woman has evolved from mother to homemaker to breadwinner, all the while being expected to look pretty too.

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Of course, we get help from our significant others (I have never learned how to operate a lawn mower for instance), but in many cases, the bulk of the work gets done by us.

Aside from cleaning, cooking and taking care of the kids, many women have yet another full-time job - one where they work 40 hours or more to help support their families. On an average day, a woman might wake up, work out, make breakfast, drop the kids at school, work eight to 10 hours, make dinner, put the kids to bed, do laundry, vacuum, pay bills and start other miscellaneous chores (time permitting) before going to bed.

As if we are not already exhausted enough, we are expected to look pretty on top of all that too.

Don't get me wrong, I love to put on a nice dress and makeup, but honestly, I'm tired and I don't even have kids of my own.

To make matters worse, various media outlets tell us repeatedly that we are not good enough - whether it be that we are not thin enough, young enough or heaven forbid, pretty enough. As if we don't have enough to worry about?

Perhaps I'm biased (I am a woman after all) but there's not a woman I know - scratch that, Super Dynamo - who is not pretty, regardless of whether she's dressed for a night out or relaxing in sweats and a T-shirt at the end of the day.

That doesn't mean that I can't wait for warmer weather to pull out my summer dresses, but it does mean that hopefully the idea of "pretty" is more than thread or lipstick deep, especially in an age where women are expected to be Super Dynamos.